SCDSS v. Fletcher

THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE
CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

South Carolina Department of Social Services,
Respondent,

v.

Rebecca Fletcher, Boonie Fletcher, Robert Sankey, and
Teena Boetjjer, Defendants,

Of whom Robert Sankey is the Appellant.

In the interest of minors under the age of eighteen.

Appellate Case No. 2015-001805

Appeal From Aiken County
Daniel E. Martin, Jr., Family Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2016-UP-217
Submitted May 6, 2016 – Filed May 17, 2016

AFFIRMED

Montford Shuler Caughman, of Caughman Law, LLC, of
Lexington, for Appellant.
Amanda Frances Whittle, of the South Carolina
Department of Social Services, of Columbia, for
Respondent.

Amy Patterson Shumpert, of Nance, McCants, &
Massey, of Aiken, for the Guardian ad Litem.

PER CURIAM: Robert Sankey appeals the family court's final order terminating
his parental rights to his two minor children. See S.C. Code Ann. § 63-7-2570
(Supp. 2015). Upon a thorough review of the record and the family court's
findings of facts and conclusions of law pursuant to Ex parte Cauthen, 291 S.C.
465, 354 S.E.2d 381 (1987), we find no meritorious issues that warrant briefing.
Accordingly, we affirm the family court's order and relieve Sankey's counsel.

AFFIRMED.1

HUFF, A.C.J., and KONDUROS and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

1
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.